EITHER
\ˈa͡ɪðə], \ˈaɪðə], \ˈaɪ_ð_ə]\
Definitions of EITHER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
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One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
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Each of two; the one and the other; both; - formerly, also, each of any number.
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precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
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One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
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Each of two; the one and the other; both; - formerly, also, each of any number.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One of two; one or the other.
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Introductory word or correlative to or-as, either he will hold to the one or despise the other.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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One or other of any number; one of two; each; every one, separately considered.
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Correlative to or, and preceding it.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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a. or pron. [Anglo-Saxon] One or the other — properly of two things, but sometimes of more;—each of two; the one and the other.
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conj. Either is a distributive pronoun used to indicate the first of two or more alternatives, and is answered by or, which precedes the second or subsequent alternatives.
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